🇺🇸 JUST IN: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly says more interest rate hikes are likely as Americans remain on a “treadmill of high inflation,” per CNBC. She warned that wages are failing to keep up with inflation despite a strong October jobs report. Do you think the Fed will raise rates again?
Laura Shin Goes Undercover in Crypto Hiring: Suspected North Korean Developer's Call Drops After Kim Jong Un Question On August 14, Unchained founder and CEO Laura Shin @laurashin posed as recruiter Sophie Wang to interview a suspected North Korean crypto developer applying to Oomp-Labs. Security researchers had reviewed his GitHub profile and work history and found links between his wallet transactions and North Korea-related activity. During the interview, Shin asked him to say something negative about Kim Jong Un. He hesitated, and the call ended. Nine minutes later, he blamed an unstable connection and suggested switching to Discord or Telegram. On Telegram, Shin repeated the question. He replied, "I don't know much," then said he had never faced such a request in other interviews, without answering directly. Shin urged crypto companies to strengthen applicant screening.
⚡️ UPDATE: $BTC has traded below the global price on Coinbase for 61 straight days.
Paraguay authorities arrest ex-president after impeachment, local outlet ABC says
A difficult week for spot $XRP ETFs... Despite an incredible run for most of the year, demand for spot @Ripple ETFs has certainly cooled off. This week, the products have not seen a single day of net inflows, instead recording three days of zero activity, and one day of net outflows. The ETFs are down -$530K on the week, but still hold 1.8% of @XRP's supply.
BREAKING: US imports of computers, computer accessories, and semiconductors surged +$12.1 billion in September, to a record $86.9 billion. This marks the 2nd-largest monthly increase in history, following the record +$14.7 billion increase in July 2026. Since the start of 2024, imports of computers, computer accessories, and semiconductors have more than quadrupled. YoY, these imports rose +151%, the largest YoY increase on record, compared with peak annual growth of just +34% during the 2000 Dot-Com Boom. Based on September's figures, these imports are now running at an annualized rate above $1.0 trillion for the first time. US demand for technology hardware is exploding.
Italy not yet taking sides between Spanish and Dutch candidates for ECB chief
ICYMI: "As more things come on chain, there'll be more and more opportunity for those assets to become productive." Anchorage Digital's AJ Macey says tokenization feeds collateral: once Anchorage custody supports an asset and can liquidate it, clients can put treasuries, money market funds, and equities to work across the ecosystem.
Solana Labs' Leap has launched an iPhone beta for crypto and tokenized assets, @Tyler_Did_It breaks down the new trading app.
🚨 LATEST: Anthropic investors are questioning its $1.5 trillion IPO valuation, with some expecting it to fall to $1 trillion following the tech sell-off, per CNBC.
Canton tops every chain with $320B in tokenized assets @CantonNetwork ($CC) accounts for about $320.7B of the $366B in “represented” assets on rwa.xyz, meaning assets recorded on a network but not freely traded onchain. Almost all of it comes from Broadridge’s repo platform, which handles short-term loans backed by US government bonds. Canton also shared this week’s numbers from its foundation’s live counter: the network now has 63 Super Validator nodes and 827 validators in total. The chain made about $1.3M in daily network fees.
⚠️ALERT: Hackers are now targeting WordPress, the software behind 39.5% of all websites online. A critical flaw lets attackers take over a WordPress site in the seconds it spends updating, without needing to log in. During a full update, WordPress briefly stages its installer in a public folder, and anyone who reaches it in that window can run their own code on the server. It affects every version from 4.7 to 7.1.3, nearly 10 years of releases going back to December 2016. What has happened so far: Security firm Wordfence flagged the flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-119977 Its first firewall block came just 9 minutes after the protection went live It saw more than 18,500 attack attempts in the first 21 hours after the flaw went public Some attackers spent about 14.5 hours repeatedly checking small groups of sites, waiting to catch one mid-update Wordfence blocked 12,632 attempts in a single 24-hour period On Nov 3, US cyber agency CISA confirmed active attacks and ordered federal agencies to patch by Nov 6 What’s being done: WordPress has released fixed versions for every affected branch, including 7.1.4. Wordfence is blocking the attacks with a firewall rule. Wordfence urges site owners to update as soon as possible, and says they can block access to PHP files in /wp-content/upgrade/ before updating for extra protection. If you run a WordPress site, update now, and take that precaution first if you can.
Coinbase Adds USDC Borrowing Against Tokenized Gold. Coinbase users can now borrow USDC against Paxos-issued PAX Gold through a Morpho lending market on Base, bringing gold-backed collateral into the exchange’s existing in-app borrowing service.
Canadian dollar posts steepest decline since January on surprise jobs loss
Pearl leads the crypto top 100 with a 15% jump @prlnet's $PEARL climbed about 16.7% in the past 24 hours to $1.86, the biggest gain in the top 100, on $14.8M in trading volume. That extends its 30-day run to 32%, with its market cap now near $692M. Along the way, Coinbase added PEARL to its listing roadmap on Oct 19, and NEAR Intents (@near_intents) opened cross-chain swaps for it this week. Pearl runs its own layer 1, where mining is designed to double as AI computing work.
NEW: 🇺🇸 Public company Strive disclosed a net income of $509 million and the addition of 28,000 BTC in Q3. 👀 This brought their Bitcoin treasury to 43,124 BTC worth $3.26 billion! 🚀
🇺🇸 REGULATION: The CFTC just told regulated US derivatives exchanges to stop blocking access by state. Chairman Michael Selig says geographic restrictions break the Commodity Exchange Act's fair access rules, and exchanges have 30 days to drop them or explain why they can't. If that holds, it could set up a direct fight with states trying to block prediction markets.
JUST IN: @Aave acquires fixed-rate lending startup @Avon_xyz, bringing its protocol engineering team and technology in-house as Aave works to add fixed-rate lending to its $33B deposit, $13B active loan platform.
🇺🇸 JUST IN: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly says more interest rate hikes are likely as Americans remain on a “treadmill of high inflation,” per CNBC. She warned that wages are failing to keep up with inflation despite a strong October jobs report. Do you think the Fed will raise rates again?
Laura Shin Goes Undercover in Crypto Hiring: Suspected North Korean Developer's Call Drops After Kim Jong Un Question On August 14, Unchained founder and CEO Laura Shin @laurashin posed as recruiter Sophie Wang to interview a suspected North Korean crypto developer applying to Oomp-Labs. Security researchers had reviewed his GitHub profile and work history and found links between his wallet transactions and North Korea-related activity. During the interview, Shin asked him to say something negative about Kim Jong Un. He hesitated, and the call ended. Nine minutes later, he blamed an unstable connection and suggested switching to Discord or Telegram. On Telegram, Shin repeated the question. He replied, "I don't know much," then said he had never faced such a request in other interviews, without answering directly. Shin urged crypto companies to strengthen applicant screening.
⚡️ UPDATE: $BTC has traded below the global price on Coinbase for 61 straight days.
Paraguay authorities arrest ex-president after impeachment, local outlet ABC says
A difficult week for spot $XRP ETFs... Despite an incredible run for most of the year, demand for spot @Ripple ETFs has certainly cooled off. This week, the products have not seen a single day of net inflows, instead recording three days of zero activity, and one day of net outflows. The ETFs are down -$530K on the week, but still hold 1.8% of @XRP's supply.
